Putting the words to lights – crossword clues explained in plain English
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Today Ray T has given us a puzzle that is somewhat on the easy side. If you usually find his puzzles too hard, then give this one a go.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ***
This is a perfectly fine and enjoyable puzzle but it’s not really a Toughie, in fact it could have very easily taken its place on the back page. Let us have your views!
Please take the time to give your assessment of the puzzle by clicking on one of the stars below.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
Hola from the Vega Baja where there are too many mossies! One has been feasting on my right ankle while I was doing today’s puzzle!
More Wednesday wizardry today from Jay(?). Did the midnight solve again but haven’t got the grumpy head on so it must be good, at least I enjoyed it a lot, hope you guys do as well. Couple of tricky ones, as usual, but overall not too difficult so only 2* difficulty from me. After 10 weeks blogging Jay’s puzzles I think I must be getting on the right wavelength. I’ll be interested in your thoughts.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Once you spot the theme, this puzzle is not too difficult. There were too many convoluted clues for my liking and the usual dreadful homophone (are they mandatory these days?).
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
We have another entertaining pangram from Shamus today. Let us know how you got on with it.
To see an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the clue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment **
Maybe it was just me, but this felt a bit formulaic today. especially 20d and 22d and some of the other clues seem a bit weak e.g. 6d and 14d. But as always there are some better clues to lift it, my favourite of the day 27a.
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As is usual for the weekend prize crosswords, I will select a few of the better clues and provide hints for them.
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BD Rating – Difficulty **** – Enjoyment *****
Greetings from the sun-kissed Calder Valley. It’s the third Friday, and time for another romp with Elgar, and as usual we are not disappointed. A fair old challenge with a grand batch of clues to make you smile and beat your head against the desk in equal measures.
We also have one of the more unusual grids with four-way symmetry and Elgar has risen to the compiler’s challenge of a pangrammatic set of answers. Thanks to him for a smashing way to start the weekend.
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BD Rating – Difficulty ** – Enjoyment ****
We have the usual polished puzzle from Giovanni this Friday. I enjoyed it a lot and it was perhaps slightly less difficult than usual (please remember that difficulty is very subjective and the grading can often depend on whether you get one key answer early on very quickly or not). Let us know how you found it in a comment.
To reveal an answer just highlight the space between the brackets under the clue.
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BD Rating – Difficulty *** – Enjoyment ***
Morning All!. I think that this week it was the turn of our mystery setter for the Saturday entertainment. There were a few clues that caused some trouble on the day but nothing too difficult. I made it up to 3 stars based on my own solving time and comments from the ‘blog. Continue reading “DT 26564”